DISCURSIVITY AND GRAND NARRATIVES THROUGH THE LENS OF POSTMODERNISM
DISCURSIVITY AND GRAND NARRATIVES THROUGH THE LENS OF POSTMODERNISM

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores complexities of the relationship between language, meaning and knowledge in world representation and construal through perspectives held by postmodernists such as Jean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard. The rejection of meta-narratives brings together core arguments in a critique of foundationalism, as well as of language neutrality in the objective account of a reality true for the totality of human experiences, and replaces these with context-sensitive relativity, subjectivity in the collection of different experiences, and a changing identity of the self as better fitting in the quest for understanding the world.

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